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Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems

$12.95 plus S/H

Love does more than make skin tingle and cheeks flush. It creates an interior heat that can stoke the furnace of inspiration and communion, giving us fuel to get through our daily lives. That heat can also be wild as grass on fire, burning us to ash.

The Maryland Writers’ Association, editor Laura Shovan, and fifty poets guide us through a seven-fold expression of love Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems. This collection explores:

First Love, Lost Love

Love of Art and Work

Friends and Family

Love of Nature

Love Floods the Senses

The Madness of Love

Love as We Age

Without the dreaded saccharine of so many love poems, these reveal a depth of experience, fresh and unexpected perspectives, and no lack of pain and joy. With insight, wit, and honesty, Life in Me Like Grass on Fire creates a view of love that is playful, resigned, passionate and, ultimately, hopeful.

"This collection offers dazzling variety…riches to the senses, an abundance of wonderful 'stuff.' I [HEART] Life In Me Like Grass On Fire."—Clarinda Harriss, author of Mortmain, co-editor of Hot Sonnets: An Anthology

"Life in Me Like Grass on Fire is the confluence into which the many streams of love flow. Ride the current of these words through rapids and still waters to places new yet familiar with these poets as your able guides."—Gregg Wilhelm, Executive Director, CityLit Project

For more information or to schedule a reading, please contact editor Laura Shovan.

New Lines from the Old Line State

ISBN: 978-0-9820032-0-6$15.95

Thirty-six captivating pieces of literature from twenty-nine authors in this debut anthology from the Maryland Writers' Association

For over twenty years, the Maryland Writers' Association has nurtured and supported the Maryland literary arts community with monthly meetings, workshops, lectures, author showcases, newsletters, and an annual writers' conference. Now, for the first time, these select MWA members deliver a riveting introduction to the region's writing community in New Lines from the Old Line State.

This collection offers a rich and varied selection of contemporary literature from a stylistically and culturally diverse range of writers including: